I interrupt the soaring beauty and lush grandeur of Tim's latest for sort of an experiment.
There are a couple of concepts in play here:
https://soundcloud.com/beige-maze/who-are-you-really-and-what-were-you-before(1) An earnest attempt at Karplus-Strong synthesis with the DSM03. Rather than trying to play the DSM03 as a sound source, I'm providing my own tuned impluses. I'm sort of alternating between struck metallic surfaces and plucked... maybe "strings"... by adjusting the feedback time for a signal that's already in tune. I need to work on this a bit. I think I can combine this with a low pass gate to make the result less harsh, but that's for another piece.
(2) I'm working on developing a compositional technique that involves writing scales instead of notes. I come up with several motifs on the piano, and write down the notes in the motifs until I have four "scales." They're not full scales as we usually think of them, though; they're just sets of notes that include all the notes in each motif, so they're between 4 and 7 notes. I go through these scales one at a time, entering them into the µScale. Various modulation sources decide what notes are actually played, but the notes are constrained to the ones in the original motifs. Since I'm not immediately shifting from one scale to another (I'm just toggling buttons on the µScale), a listener can sort of hear gradual transitions from one scale to the next.
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